| Scientific Name: | Helenium autumnale |
| Common Name: | sneezeweed |
| Family Name: | Asteraceae |
| Origin: | Canada - eastern, U.S. - northeast, U.S. - southwest |
| Hardiness Zone: | Zone 4: (-34 to -29 °C) |
| Plant Type: | Herbaceous perennial |
| Mature Size: | 1.3 - 2.0m x 0.6 - 1.0m (height x width) |
| Habit: | Open, Spreading, Upright |
| Form: | Oval - vertical |
| Texture: | Medium |
| Landscape Uses: | Attract beneficial insects, Attract butterflies, Cut flower or foliage, Fall interest, Filler, Group or mass planting, Mixed shrub border, Perennial border, Summer interest, Waterside planting |
| Exposure: | Full sun |
| Soil or Media: | Well-drained |
| Leaves: | Simple, Alternate, Soft flexible, Glabrous, Elliptic, Lanceolate, Serrate |
| Flowers: | Head (capitulum), Yellow, Jul-Aug-Sep |
| Fruit: | Cypsela (achene + calyx), Brown, Oct-Nov |
| Key ID Features: | |
| Grows ~2m high but is very floppy; leaves alternate, lanceolate-elliptic, most 7-17cm long x 3-4cm wide; flower has a fan-like arrangement of ray florets around red and/ or yellow disk florets. | |